I pass with relief from the tossing sea of Cause and Theory to the firm ground of Result and Fact.
Winston S. ChurchillTags: fact sea theory causation relief results
Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer."
[Mark Twain, a Biography]
Tags: humor profanity prayer relief you-ll-completely-understand-why
My tears brought no sense of release or relief. Their flight felt like the lightest, coldest touch of a departing lover.
Anne GiardiniTags: tears sad relief lover release
Tags: relationships drinking alcohol relief liquor
You're insane!" she shouted.
"Pretty cool, huh?"
"No!"Tally yelled. "Why didn't you tell me it was broken?"
Shay shrugged. "More fun that way?"
"More fun?" Her heart beating fast,her vision strangely clear. She was full of anger and relief and...joy.
"Well, kind of. But you suck!
Tags: joy funny anger relief insane tally shay coaster roller
People, he thought, were as hungry for a sight of joy as he had always been--for a moment's relief from that gray load of suffering which seemed so inexplicable and unnecessary. He had never been able to understand why men should be unhappy.
Ayn RandTags: happiness pain joy suffering happy relief absence-of-suffering
Then came the time for the evening visit to the toilet, for which, in all likelihood, you had waited, all atremble, all day. How relieved, how eased, the whole world suddenly became! How the great questions all simplified themselves at the same instant---did you feel it?
Aleksandr SolzhenitsynDon Bradman will bat no more against England, and two contrary feelings dispute within us: relief, that our bowlers will no longer be oppressed by this phenomenon; regret, that a miracle has been removed from among us. So must ancient Italy have felt when she heard of the death of Hannibal.
R.C. Robertson-GlasgowTags: miracle italy regret relief ambivalence england hannibal cricket bradman
It gives a fella relief to tell, but it jus' spreads out his sin.
John SteinbeckThe best thing—in Shadow's opinion, perhaps the only good thing—about being in prison was a feeling of relief. The feeling that he'd plunged as low as he could plunge and he'd hit bottom. He didn't worry that the man was going to get him, because the man had got him. He was no longer scared of what tomorrow might bring, because yesterday had brought it.
Neil GaimanTags: fear prison relief american-gods
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